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From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com>
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To: ponds!cdsnet.net!mrcpu, ponds!dyson.iquest.net!toor
Subject: Re: Doing the FreeBSD tightrope walk.
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> 
> > 
> > What is aggravating I guess is that I can swear that I've seen on this
> > list statements to the effect of "Bounce buffers support doesn't hurt
> > anything, so you might as well leave it in".
> > 
> So we were wrong :-).  I always hated the bounce buffer support that
> I wrote -- and would have done it better again.  But darn'it I don't
> think that there are many jobs for bounce-buffer writers :-).
> 
> > 
> > Oh well, now if somebody fixes my regular NFS panics I will be a happier
> > camper than you can imagine.
> > 
> I'd love to work on it soon.  Right now, my context is in the thread
> support in current, and then BUGFIXES for the next few days.  I am
> bored of other things, and might look at NFS.
> 
> John
> 

 I'd be happy to exercise any NFS changes you propose - particularly
if they might bear on the readdir() and V2 problems I've been having.

	- Dave Rivers -